Bohlinia

Bohlinia is an extinct genus of the artiodactyl family Giraffidae that lived during the Late Miocene in Eurasia and Africa. It was first named by the paleontologist Dr. W. Matthew in 1929, and contains two species, B. adoumi and B. attica. The species B. attica has been reclassified several times since its description, being first named Camelopardalis attica and then reclassified as Giraffa attica.

Bohlinia

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GiraffidaePBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Giraffidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Giraffidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 4.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 12.8 Mya to 5.09 Mya.

Miocene — about 18 of 18 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesPliocene13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences10–10 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.8–9.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.5–9.2 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.2–8.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.9–8.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.7–8.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences8.4–8.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences8.1–7.8 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences7.8–7.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences7.5–7.2 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences7.2–6.9 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences6.9–6.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences6.6–6.3 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences6.3–6.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences6.0–5.8 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences5.8–5.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences5.5–5.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.2–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11.63 Mya7.246 Mya13.3 Mya4.6 Mya

18 occurrences of Bohlinia on record, most of them in the Miocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

18 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

6 formations

Pikermi — 38.04°N, 23.72°EPikermi — 38.00°N, 23.95°EDytiko — 40.88°N, 22.55°EAgha Jari — 34.48°N, 44.63°ETuglu — 40.61°N, 33.63°ENea Messimvria — 40.77°N, 22.79°ENikiti — 40.23°N, 23.69°E

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The named rock units Bohlinia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bohlinia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Bohlinia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

228 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Bohlinia, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

12 references

Each of the 18 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Bohlinia

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Bohlinia was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itGiraffidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew 1929